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College Hill, Cincinnati, HAMILTON COUNTS, OHIO
(Underground R. R. Clippings on Cinnati, Vol* 4,) tp. 43] Levi Coffin * . . • had one branch of his road through Israel Township* Ebenezer Elliott, Nathan Brown and othewalong the line are said to have been directors of the road» Whenever the colored refu¬ gees touched College Hill, near Cincinnati, they were sure to go to Canada via the Israel Township route*
Sometimes the parties would miss the **through train** and would be compelled to advance without a conductoPe About 30 years ago, a party of this kind was traveling up the pike from Oxford, when a man on horseback overtook them^ and tried to hinder them, and thus assist their masters, who were in close pursuit* The frightened negroes took refuge in the house of a colored man who lived in Claysburgh [Mail Pair Haven, Preble County], and the avaricious watcher, tjplnking that they were trapped, quietly awaited the ax*- rival of their mas terse But the shrewd darkles had es- I
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caped from a back windowi^i through the cornfield and the adjoining woods and were rapidly conducted into Indiana* Their sable conductor waa none other than Oabrlel Smith, known all over the country as **01d Oabe.** (He had been a slave, was a fine singer and the fiddler of the co\mty and quite a character,) He had settled in Claysburgh.
Israel Township settlement. John Sloan brought fourteen of his slaves from Newbury district. South Oardlina^to Israel Township in IdSb, freed them and bought a few acre.s of land for them*

College Hill, Cincinnati, HAMILTON COUNTS, OHIO
(Underground R. R. Clippings on Cinnati, Vol* 4,) tp. 43] Levi Coffin * . . • had one branch of his road through Israel Township* Ebenezer Elliott, Nathan Brown and othewalong the line are said to have been directors of the road» Whenever the colored refu¬ gees touched College Hill, near Cincinnati, they were sure to go to Canada via the Israel Township route*
Sometimes the parties would miss the **through train** and would be compelled to advance without a conductoPe About 30 years ago, a party of this kind was traveling up the pike from Oxford, when a man on horseback overtook them^ and tried to hinder them, and thus assist their masters, who were in close pursuit* The frightened negroes took refuge in the house of a colored man who lived in Claysburgh [Mail Pair Haven, Preble County], and the avaricious watcher, tjplnking that they were trapped, quietly awaited the ax*- rival of their mas terse But the shrewd darkles had es- I
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caped from a back windowi^i through the cornfield and the adjoining woods and were rapidly conducted into Indiana* Their sable conductor waa none other than Oabrlel Smith, known all over the country as **01d Oabe.** (He had been a slave, was a fine singer and the fiddler of the co\mty and quite a character,) He had settled in Claysburgh.
Israel Township settlement. John Sloan brought fourteen of his slaves from Newbury district. South Oardlina^to Israel Township in IdSb, freed them and bought a few acre.s of land for them*